Reached on the road between gigs in Montreal and Ottawa, Usman comes off more like a sage than a funnyman, as much an activist as a gagster. |
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After 10 weeks' training from seasoned professionals, even the dullest of personalities should be able to cut it as a competent gagster. |
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The ubiquitous gagster from Motherwell is about to invade terrestrial television with a football programme later this month, enlarging an already generous media profile. |
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Ipswich fan, adopted cockney and genial gagster Tony Cowards completes the line-up along with compere Danny McLoughlin. |
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Whatever his relative merits as a gagster, Yorkston is unlikely to ever become a new Leslie Welch. |
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One-line gagster Tim Vine came along to put an inflatable tent up in a gale and tell a joke about tornadoes while Marcus Brigstocke helped out with a hand-held turbo-something designed to blow snowboarders back up a slope. |
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They were like Morecambe and Wise, Monty the gagster and Tommy the straight man. |
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Then the buck-toothed, singing, miming, musical gagster found an outlet for his unique style on TV, making many appearances on Sunday Night At The Palladium. |
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A stint at Butlin's was followed by his TV break on The Comedians, alongside greats like Les Dawson, EastEnders' actor Mike Reid and Scouse gagster Tom O'Connor. |
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